Week in photos: Jan. 7-11

A Bahraini anti-government protester tries to conceal a molotov cocktail before tossing it at riot police during clashes in Malkiya.

AP

A homeless man sits wrapped in blankets and surrounded by others at a shelter in the old quarters of Delhi, India. A cold snap in India’s northern areas killed more than 100 homeless, an aid group said last week.

Reuters

One man holds a ladder for another in order to climb to the second floor of an Ortley Beach, NJ, home heavily damaged by superstorm Sandy.

Reuters

Spectators snap shots through showering sand as France’s Laurent Duverney-Pret passes on his quad during the third stage of the Rally Dakar 2013 outside Lima, Peru.

EPA

A group of Palestinian men team up to remove a fallen tree left at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s old city by nasty storms.

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An officer patrols the rooftop of a building near the Arapahoe County Justice Center during a court appearance by James Holmes, the accused shooter in the July 20 movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo.

Reuters

A pod of hundreds of dolphins splashes around off the coast of Dana Point, Calif., about an hour south of Los Angeles, where someone aboard a local whale-watching craft snapped this shot of the stampede.

AP

A campaign billboard for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looms over everyday Israelis in Bnei Brak. General elections in Israel are only two weeks away.

AP

Smoke and ash escape the mouth of the Plosky Tolbachnik volcano in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. Before last week, the last time Plosky Tolbachnik erupted was in 1976.

AP

Police rush to to disperse rioters who’d reportedly hijacked and set fire to a car on the Woodstock Link on the fourth consecutive night of violence in Belfast, Ireland.

Splash News

Participants march with national flags during a religious procession in celebration of the Orthodox Christmas in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Reuters

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi accepts his fourth Ballon d’Or award (FIFA player of the year) at a ceremony at the Kongresshaus in Zurich. Messi scored a record 91 goals in 2012.

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Flyers fan Jeanine Wagner isn’t the only happy hockey fan around today as she watches her team train in Voorhees, NJ. The NHL and its players have come to a lockout-ending deal; the season will start later this month.

AP

Panasonic’s North American CEO Joe Taylor totes a 20-inch tablet as he presents part of the company’s keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

AP

Australian police try to corner a kangaroo trapped in a parking garage at the Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne.

Nicole Garmston/Newspix/Rex

A work crew stands on the hull of the Costa Concordia, still capsized and aground on the Italian island of Giglio almost a year after the crash that killed 32 people.

Palestinian people warm themselves against the growing cold in the Mideast over a fire built in the rubble of their Beit Lahiya home in Gaza.

EPA

A vessel sails through the thick drift ice in the Bohai Sea off the coast of China’s Hebei Province.

ZUMA Press

Police officers secure the scene of a crash on I-37 in Corpus Christi, Texas. The jacknifed tractor-trailer slammed into a concrete barrier and took out the interstate signs, shutting the highway.

AP

Syrian rebels peer from their foxholes during an ongoing battle with government forces over the military airport in Taftanaz, Syria.

AP

A snow sculpture of a Bhudda gets a final polish before the Shenyang International Ice and Snow Festival in China.

Reuters

Two friends embrace on a dock on Budd Lake in Mount Olive, NJ, after a body was recovered during a search for two teenagers thought to have fallen through the ice.

AP

A man sits on top of his car in an attempt to avoid the flooding road around him on a road through Kfar Qara, Israel.

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At least this guy’s head and hands won’t freeze. He’s modeling a piece for designer Sibling at The Hospital Club in London.

Getty Images

Karl Geiger of Germany wipes out during a training round at the Ski Jumping World Cup in Wisla, Poland.

EPA

A guide at the voodoo Temple of Pythons in Ouidah, Benin, shows one of his charges to visitors. The city is preparing for its annual Voodoo Festival.

AP

Children play on self-made swings attached to scaffolding at a construction site in Tongxiang, China.

Reuters

Devotees carry the statue of the Black Nazarene at the start of its annual procession through Manila, the Philippines. The wooden statue of Jesus Christ is believed to have healing powers and is paraded through Manila’s old city from dawn to midnight.

Reuters

EMTs evacuate a commuter injured in the ferry crash at the South Street Seaport that injured 57 people, one critically.

Reuters

A Siberian tiger cools itself off in a pool at the zoo in Rio de Janeiro.

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Motorists play in the desert snow at the site of an auto accident on a road near Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

Reuters

A Rockdale County firefighter sits outside the scene of a house fire that killed four children, including an infant, in Conyers, Ga.

AP

Duke fans mess with Clemson’s K.J. McDaniels as he inbounds the ball in the first half of a 68-40 Duke win.

AP

A doll lays covered in mud on the ground in the flooded Israeli village of Bat Hefer.

AP

Gael Monfils plays a backhand in his second-round match against Greg Jones at the Heineken Open in Auckland, New Zealand.

A Seleka rebel coalition member totes a bag full of rockets in a village outside Damara, Central African Republic, as peace talks began between the rebels (who control most of the region) the government and the political oposition.

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A 6-year-old devotee dressed as Hindu god Lord Shiva takes a nap at a temporary camp in Calcutta where pilgrims are gathering to celebrate the annual holy festival Gangasagar Mela.

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Three killer whales surface through a hole in the ice of the Hudson Bay near Inukjuak, Quebec. The trio is part of a pod trapped in the sea ice of the bay.

Reuters

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish couple walks through a snow-covered cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem after the worst snowstorm in 20 years shut government offices, public transport and schools in northern Israel.

Reuters

A member of Venezuela’s Bolivarian militia, in uniform with her face painted, holds a flower during a rally in Caracas in support of the ailing President Hugo Chavez.

AP

Security forces leave a Kenyan man to mourn over the bodies of his wife and child — and the ashes of his home — after Orma raiders attacked their village of Kibusu.

AP

A hooded crow harasses a white-tailed eagle while the eagle snacks on its fishy prey in a Hungarian field.

Will Nicholls / Rex / Rex USA

Clippers guard Chris Paul peers into a crowd of fans holding oversized pictures of him during the first half of their 99-93 win over the Mavericks.

AP

An intense group of sled dogs pull their driver through the Border Rush Race in The Giant Mountains National Park, in Jakuszyce, Poland.

Reuters

Argentine frigate Libertad arrives in Mar del Plata after a two-month detainment in Ghana due to a debt the Argentine government holds.

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Protesting farm workers holding South Africa’s N1 highway in De Doorns take cover from police firing on their lines. The workers striking in hopes of doubling their salary to about $15 a day, but have been met with arrests, rubber bullets and stun grenades.

EPA

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley hugs her son, Nalin, 10, as her husband Michael Haley boards a bus for deployment from Ft. Jackson, S.C., to Indiana for training, then to Afghanistan, with the state’s National Guard Agribusiness Development Team.